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Weekly quiz · 8 Nov–14 Nov

How closely did you follow the week?

4 questions on the week's key numbers. Tap an answer; every question links to its story.

  1. Congress spent ? in 2009 on School Improvement Grants for the lowest-performing schools, and researchers found they did nothing, Adam Mastroianni wrote on 10 November 2026.

  2. Indian AI start-up Sarvam completed a series B funding round in August 2026 that valued it at ?, the Financial Times reported.

  3. UK sponsored study visas fell ? to 383,000 in the year ending June 2026, 41% below the peak in the year ending June 2023, ET Online reported.

  4. Only about ? of treasuries are now tokenised, economist Darrell Duffie calculates, Gillian Tett wrote in the Financial Times in November 2026.

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